Goals for the week

[sigelphoenix]

I'm at the point where the idea of making goals for myself feels encouraging rather than draining. YES.

I've been moving toward this point for a while, but what really cinched it was this past weekend, during which I: met with my NWSA group for our first official planning session (which was also the first time I'd seen any of these fabulous women in many months), went downtown with kyonkun, met up with mahokiwi and laylah at ratzeo and zinjadu's apartment (also the first time seeing them in a while, though luckily not months), and played my first session of casaval's Harry Potter game.

The NWSA meeting was crucial for lighting a fire under my ass and getting me back to work. These are some of the most amazing, intelligent, powerful women I know, so being in a room with them, and feeling their energy and support, went a long way towards making me feel capable of taking on this conference. And, from there, taking on anti-oppression work in general. (I've started, for better or for worse, thinking about grad school again ...)

The rest of the weekend was more about making me happy enough to keep going with this productivity, rather than being productive in and of itself, but that is also important. :D

So my goals for this week are:

-level Sae for Warmakers on Sunday
-finish twin-fic collaboration with shadawyn
-finish castle battle fic
-finish Gunnar/Sae RP and/or fic with ratzeo
-make preliminary sketch for coramegan's calendar (can be very basic concept design)
-read at least one article for NWSA roundtable and post info for group
-go to gym three times, as I missed days during the last two weeks due to sickness and busy schedule


ETA:

Monday:
-made super-basic concept design for calendar piece; will probably end up fleshing it out this week
-planned out some of Gunnar/Sae RP, wrote some into fic form
-looked at shoes online to begin planning my reward for meeting my goals :3

Tuesday:
-went to gym
-went to grocery store (not on my list of goals, but it was a productive thing I got accomplished)
-got ratzeo's input on Gunnar/Sae fic, finished writing about half, and planned out the rest

Wednesday:
-went to gym
-finished Gunnar/Sae fic, sent to ratzeo for review
-wasted time watching American Idol for an hour :/

Thursday:
-finished my sections of the twin-fic and sent to shadawyn
-wasted time tonight by falling asleep - will need to see if I can get the last section of the castle fic done tomorrow morning if work is slow

Friday:
-finished castle fic
-went to gym

Saturday:
-leveled Sae and other Warmakers prep
-went shopping for shoe reward :3

Comments

[sigelphoenix.insanejournal.com]

Thank you! I know what you mean about energy around motivated people - I think part of the reason Friday night's meeting was successful was that I was in the right head space for it. Because even though these women are awesome and motivated, I'm around plenty of awesome and motivated people on a normal basis. I just haven't been mentally ready to take advantage of that until now.

Got rewards set up, too? :D

Evil woman. :P Well, my recent fixation has been getting good (and, more importantly, comfortable) work-worthy shoes. So maybe I'll take myself shoe shopping if I meet my goals. :D